A slow motion death for critics of NewsCorp/BSkyB deal
Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust, reacts to the news Jeremy Hunt is allowing just seven more days’ consultation on the NewsCorp/BSkyB deal.
Media Integrity
Sinning with statistics: Frank Field on welfare and immigration
There is no question of Frank Field lying: but there are other ways to sin with statistics – as Mr Field proves through his analysis of benefit payments.
Aggression is a fact of life for the disabled in London, as the tabloids continue to attack
Over half of disabled Londoners experience hostility, aggression and violence because of their disability according to a new poll reported by the BBC.
Hurrah for the climate deniers: How the Daily Mail swallowed enviroscepticism whole
Tim Holmes reports on the latest Daily Mail scaremongering and misrepresentation of the climate change debate.
Leaked reports of 20 per cent cuts to BBC Wales “not acceptable” says Jones
Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones has called for urgent talks with Westminster to discuss leaked plans for cuts to the BBC services in Wales, reports Ed Jacobs.
Fear of death: The ultimate injunction
There’s more than one way of muzzling the press; at least super-injunctions don’t imprison or kill, writes Amnesty International UK’s Mike Blakemore.
Press should have advance warning of super injunctions, say judges
Journalists should be given advance warnings of applications for injunctions or super injunctions, a report by the nation’s top judges recommended today.
Balls: Global power of reporting can be “bigger than the truth”
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, speaking at the Journalists’ Charity annual lunch today, said: “The global power of reporting these days can sometimes be bigger than the truth.”
Max Mosley: Tabloids have same attitude to the law “as a bunch of feral muggers”
Max Mosley writes exclusively for Left Foot Forward on the importance of privacy why the tabloid press need to be reined in, following his recent court case.
Society and the media are failing the sick and disabled
Sue Marsh reports on the largest march of sick and disabled people in UK history in reaction to the savage, barbaric, inhuman government cuts to vital support.